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EDITION DEDICATED TO
EVA & ADELE
For this edition, which is dedicated to the Men’s collections Fall-Winter 2017/18,
Modem is giving “carte blanche” to
EVA & ADELE
for the exhibition « You re My
Biggest Inspiration », presented until February 26 at the Musée d’art moderne
de la Ville de Paris, curatorJulia Garimorth.
EVA & ADELE
, self-proclaimed as The Hermaphrodit Twins in Art, are an
iconically atypical pair of artists on the current art scene.
To create their
EVA & ADELE
works, the two artists draw on their own lives
(“
Art imitates Life
”). They met in 1989 and have lived together ever since.
In 2011, they married as a same-sex couple, a marriage possible only because
EVA’s transsexuality had been officially recognised.
« Where ever we are is museum »
The artistic concept of
EVA & ADELE
consists of daily performative acts in which
life and art mix. The two artists play on sexual difference – or lack of differen-
tiation – using our society’s behavioural and dress codes. Always identically
dressed, always surprising and ultra-feminine in their glitter makeup and yet
with their heads shaven like men, they take their
“EVA & ADELE”
work to the
widest public, as much in the selective world of art (at exhibition openings) as
in the most mundane situations: at the supermarket, in the underground and
on the street.
Their appearances, each one an “event within the event”, offer not radical
chic but authentic performances in which every detail has been meticulously
prepared and rehearsed
Eva & Adele : ‘You re My Biggest Inspiration’
until Feb 26th, 2017
Curator:
Julia Garimorth
MUSEE D’ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS
11 avenue du Président Wilson
More information on
www.evaadele.comEzio Barbaro & Modem thank their partners and wish everyone a great season
.